Metro Dobrininskaya

There are lots of challenges to life in Moscow.  Public transportation is not one of them.  A single ride on the subway costs 30 Rubles (just less than $1), but that single ride is from any metro station to any other metro station; all the transfers from one subway train to another subway train are free.  Children before age 7 are free.  Subway is really the most efficient way to get around the city.  In theory a car traveling the speed limit travels faster than a train when accounting for the train stops, but no car in Moscow ever gets far going that fast because of the traffic jams, all day long.

Every location inside Moscow is listed by name of metro stop and how to get there from the metro (walking or bus/tramvai).  So we live walking distance from metro Voikovskaya, S work is walking distance from metro Aeroport (two stops away).  Ar was teaching at Moscow State University, over a dozen stops and one transfer away.  The medical center assigned to us by our insurance is pretty far from where we live, but only a short walk from Metro Dobrininskaya (on the brown or circle line)  If we live about 11 o'clock (on the circle), then it is about 5 o'clock.


Some metro stations are very ornate.  Some have their own buildings as entrances, other entrances are built inside other buildings.  They are kept remarkably clean (for public transportation), swept regularly, and because everyone uses the metro, there are far fewer crazy people hanging around.

Metro Dobrininskaya has its own building as an entrance, with high ceilings and ornate mosaics on one wall, as in the following pictures.  They are installed on the wall you see as you first enter, overwhelming in scale:

These mosaics are standard Soviet praise of socialist heroes.  One looks like he was up in space, another about the war more generally. 

Arranged in a set of three, or triptych, with those red chandeliers hanging in front of them, they look for all the world like Russian Orthodox icons.